Chattoe-Brown, Edmund (2015) '“Censorship”, Early Childhood Research Quarterly and Qualitative Research: Not So Much Aced Out as an Own Goal?', Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 31(2), pp. 163-171. [Click on this link for online access via publisher]

Chattoe, Edmund and Hamill, Heather (2005) 'It's Not Who You Know - It's What You Know About People You Don't Know That Counts: Extending the Analysis of Crime Groups as Social Networks', British Journal of Criminology, 45(6), November, pp. 860-876. [Click on this link for online access via publisher]

Chattoe, Edmund and Gilbert, Nigel (2001) 'Understanding Consumption: What Interviews with Retired Households Can Reveal About Budgetary Decisions', Sociological Research Online, 6(3), November. [Click on this link to go to the article]

Chattoe, Edmund (1998) 'Just How (Un)realistic are Evolutionary Algorithms as Representations of Social Processes?', Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 1(3), June. [Click on this link to go to the article]

Chattoe-Brown, Edmund and Gabbriellini, Simone (2016) 'History, Histories and Book-Trade Networks: An Exploratory Agent-Based Model', in Hinks, John and Feely, Catherine (eds.) Historical Networks in the Book Trade, The History of the Book Series (London: Routledge), pp. 49-69. [Click on this link for more information via publisher]

Chattoe-Brown, Edmund (2011) 'Two Challenges in Simulating the Social Processes of Science', Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 14(4), October. [Click on this link to go to the article]

Chattoe, Edmund, Hickman, Matthew and Vickerman, Peter (2005) Drug Futures 2025? Modelling Drug Use (London: DTI Foresight/Office of Science and Technology). [Click on this link to go to the report]

Research

My research deals with decision-making in sociologically important contexts. By contrast, I am also interested in evolutionary theories of change in which practices are selected the social environment rather than chosen by individuals.

In support of these interests, I have wide experience in research methods, particularly computer simulation but also qualitative research, social network analysis and experiments.

My theoretical and methodological interests have developed in parallel with several empirical case studies on

household money management

secondhand markets

adaptation of farming practices

ethnic disadvantage in labour markets

social networks in criminal activity and drug use

Supervision

I am interested in supervising doctoral research related to my core interest in decision making in sociologically significant contexts. This means decisions in families, groups and organisations where factors like power, bureaucratic rules, collective action problems, diverse information or goals may complicate the standard models of individual decision.

In support of this interest, I have experience in

a range of methods:

particularly in computer simulation and qualitative research but to a lesser extent in experiments and statistics

theories and models:

rational choice and game theory

social network analysis

time use

substantive areas:

farming

religion

family finances

drug use

crime networks

innovation diffusion

social mobility

labour markets/industrial organisation

I am also interested in applications of evolutionary models for social change (exploring how practices may or may not reproduce themselves through selection in a social 'environment', for example, organisational ecology and memetics) and the social structure of second hand and illegal markets.

While I am interested in methodological innovation, mixed methods and methodological developments in computer simulation, I am not interested in supervising 'pure' (ie data free) research in these areas.

I am happy to work with potential applicants to translate their interests into workable (and fundable) research proposals.

A short video introduction to my presentation entitled 'How to Choose (or Refine) a Research Topic in Simulation' at the second ESSA Summer School on Social Simulation, University of Surrey, Guildford, 18-22 July 2011